Husain Sattar – Best advice for teachers
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The speaker discusses their experience studying in Islam during the seventh year of the Dar origin year, which is the final year of studies. They also talk about the importance of the Dara year and how it is a crucial year for students to study. The speaker explains their teaching methods and how they teach their own students.
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Many, many, many. Years later, I was studying in Islamabad at an
institution, and I happened to be have finished the seventh year,
and I was going into the eighth or final year. And the eighth or
final year, that's year every many of you are aware of. It's called
Dara Hadith. It's a very, very famous year. It's a very, very
important year. It's sort of the essential year. Yeni. What they
say is that the seven years was preparation for the eighth year,
and that's really the end point of the studies in the Darcy Nizami,
which is basically that you get to this final level in which you
prepare and you study for Hadith. It's like being in the company of
the Prophet. Saw isa Lam for a year. Essentially, it's as close
as you can come, because all of the various Ahadith are recited
and they're studied, then you're just constantly in the remembrance
of the time of the Prophet, sallAllahu, sallam. So when this
eighth year comes, people are very much desirous to do the eighth
year in the company of the most pious and famous people that you
can find. So when I was studying in my seventh year, there were
989, students, just a handful. It was a tiny room. We would be
sitting in there, and those students would just be around in
this corner, you know, sitting around us. And then
at the end of the seventh year, or towards the end of the seventh
year the students, they began to discuss, and they started saying,
so where are you going, and where are you going, and where are you
going? And everybody had a different place. One person said,
Oh, I'm going to darulum Karachi, and I'm going to sit in the
gatherings of Mukti Toki with money, and I'm going to this
place, and I'm going to sit here. And one person said, I'm going to
dioban, then I'm going to sit here. So everybody had a different
place where they were going to go, and a handful of people were going
to stay, and they came to me and they said, so where are you going?
So I said, I'm not going anywhere, because I came from very, very
far, and I really had nothing, and Allah created this opportunity for
me, and this is my teacher, and I'm going to be with this teacher
until the very end. Now, the students, they thought I was
crazy, and the reason they thought I was crazy was because that year,
the sheik hadith is the name of the highest teacher, the highest
level teacher, who actually is responsible for teaching Bukhari.
So the Shaykh Hadith, he had retired that year, and they hadn't
yet found a sheik Hadith for the for the next year. I said, it
doesn't matter. I came here. I benefited from here. My Sheik sent
me here. I'm staying here. And then what happened was, after he
retired, they appointed another person to be Sheik Hadith, and
this teacher was an amazing, incredible teacher, who prepared
and was so honored to be in that position that he came every day to
class. He came on time. He came fully prepared, and he was super
excited. So to you know the teachers, one aspect of a teacher
is the experience of a teacher. Another aspect of the teacher is
how much a teacher desires to be there and feels honored to be
there and wants to teach. And this person who taught me Sheik Hadith.
There were six people in the class, five, six, handful of
people in the class. He would be lecturing, as if 3000 people were
in the room. He would lecture. He would sit there. He'd be screaming
on top of his lung and so excited and doing this and doing that. And
seven people are sitting in front of him, sometimes four people,
depending on who's sick that day. He's talking through the wall.
He's talking through the wall because he was so honored to teach
that year. And I will tell you that I benefited from that teacher
in a way that I have not benefited from any teacher in my whole life.
Because, I mean, I have had many teachers, you know? I mean, I'm a
professor myself. I teach many, many people, and I have not
benefited from any teacher the way I benefited from that teacher, to
the extent that the way I teach is very much a replica of the way he
teaches. And the funny thing is that now I teach much more dunya
way knowledge than I do Dini knowledge. I'm a professor, and
I'm in a medical school, and it's one of the top medical schools in
the country, and I teach pathology, which is a subject in
medical school, which is like the essential subject in the second
year of medical school. And I teach students. I teach students
all over the world, and I use that. I use many, many, many of
the things that I observed in this teacher to teach my own medical
students. Now, obviously I'm not teaching them Dean, but I'm
teaching them some aspects of how they can benefit humanity. But
that same energy, that same dedication, that same speaking
through the wall, you know, talking beyond who's there, I had
that same I applied those exact same principles in the way that I
teach, and essentially it defined me. It defined me because of that
interaction. And so that few months of sitting there has
affected 10s of 1000s of medical students, students all over the
world. Every year, I will tell you, I can tell you at least 10 to
15 because I wrote a medical textbook, and I also have lectures
that go with that textbook. At least 15,000 medical students
every year learn from me and what.
Who are they really learning from? They're learning from me. They're
learning from that teacher who was teaching six people, because I
learned from him so and people come to me all the time, they say,
where did you learn to teach like that? How come you teach like
that? Nobody teaches like that. So where did what? How come you're
teaching like that? So I didn't learn to teach like that here. I
learned to teach like that at the base of the Himalayas, you know,
in a room and with six people, and which the whole building probably
cost $20,000 let alone that, you know, the two the $50 million
building that I teach in right now. So
the this is the mechanism by which you take advantage of opportunity.
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